Jazmine Ulloa — El Paso: Five Families and One Hundred Years of Blood, Migration, Race, and Memory - with Jia Lynn Yang & Hamed Aleaziz

From New York Times reporter Jazmine Ulloa, a sweeping human history of El Paso, revealing violence, power, and privilege at play in America's most famous border town.El Paso has been called the “Ellis Island” of America’s southern border, a mountain pass cum border town cum bifurcated metropolis where past meets future, and disadvantage meets opportunity, or so the promise goesEl Paso is an extraordinary, can’t-look-away reported history; it uses deep research and dozens of new interviews to blow away the myth of this place, where Mexico’s Juarez and America’s El Paso intertwine. It charts the history of El Paso through five families. From the Mexican Revolution and the Mexican Repatriation, to the shifting immigration laws under Reagan and Trump and the violence and bloodshed brought on by the drug war, El Paso captures a place often misunderstood or forgotten by the rest of the country, and the world.El Paso is a brave new work of narrative nonfiction that gives new voice and perspective to history that has long been checked at the border, or told through the lens of white men alone. Ulloa draws upon meticulous research and reporting and stunning historical detail to craft the intimate narratives of an unforgettable cast of characters.Jazmine Ulloa is a national reporter for The New York Times. She previously reported for The Boston Globe, where she was part of a team that won the Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting, and the Los Angeles Times. A native of El Paso, she started out as a journalist in Texas, where she worked for newspapers in Brownsville, San Antonio, and Austin. She has made appearances on MSNBC, CNN, and CBS, as well as in Al Jazeera’s documentary television program Fault Lines.Ulloa will be in conversation with Jia Lynn Yang, a senior ideas writer at The New York Times, writing deep, explanatory pieces on a wide variety of big issues facing our nation. From 2021 to 2025, she was National editor, overseeing The Times's coverage of the country. She is also the author of "One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965," a political history of the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, the landmark law that allowed her family and many others to settle in this country. Before joining The Times in 2017, she spent seven years at The Washington Post as an editor and reporter covering national security, business and economics. Ulloa will also be in conversation with Hamed Aleaziz, who covers the Department of Homeland Security and immigration policy in the United States for The New York Times. He began covering immigration as a reporter for The San Francisco Chronicle in 2017 and continued covering the beat at BuzzFeed News, The Los Angeles Times before joining The Times.PURCHASE: https://politics-prose.com/book/9780593471869?ic_referral=TIrOD7C_xwMIY_GH0W2mswm94p84VqugcIH_T1kew8cwM1xOdVdIupi3VuxnneE_zV-enE76mIJMJowduBR79ihYqHt2uVfHkrydoFYoFuYmt1nzqlyAaqnoBMn4qJ_P4KQRckQ